TheDoo wrote: 1 month ago
Once you finish Ubers as well Mr. not-so-Shadow but-very-much-Heart, do you plan to retire completely from the HC and thus save a tiny bit of sanity or will you continue your adventures on this sweaty and edgy mode for the sake of even bigger Honor and glory?
Also, come on!!! You can do it!
This is still just a side-project to me, and if I do complete this I will probably take a break from D2R until the next ladder, and start that on SCL as usual. But we'll see what happens, I guess There may be more hardcour journeys in the future either way
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Schnorki wrote: 1 month ago
Didn't you say something to that extent last time, only to then start this run like 2 days later?
Weeeell... not quite I think there was at least 2 weeks between the Death of my sorc and the birth of my necro, but that was because I was still waiting for the next ladder season and I wanted revenge And then I played this ladder season on SCL exclusively for 1.5 months before the birth of the assassin
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It's been a good while since I posted in here, you might even have forgot this was a thing
Anyway, I have been quietly farming for gear and runes, and have been making some progress, but I'm not sure I'm ready yet to make an attempt at the ubers.
I made a Wealth and then my MF snowballed (quickly found a Tarnhelm, then War Traveler, and Chance Guards - my MF with all of that plus 2 x Nagelring and charms combined is now 346, I think). I also made it all the way to level 91, so my merc can now use an Ethereal Colossus VoulgeInsight (I found that base weeks ago while progressing through Hell normally, didn't think I'd actually get to ever use it).
So far I've found the following (only mentioning things that are sorta relevant);
2 x Pul (plus cubed one more Pul from 3 x Lem - still gave 3 x Lem)
2 x Um (and I finally made a Crescent Moon - I'm still a trapsin)
Dracul's Grasp (given up on finding this - been mostly farming on Nightmare lately)
I'm going to pause this for now though, because the new ladder begins tonight and I plan to focus on that for the next while. I'll return to the HC SSF farming eventually though.
I'm also not sure if I should just try it as is with the stuff I've already found - I'm basically considering two approarches;
- Mosaic
- Kicksin/Trapsin hybrid (wouldn't use charges, just Dragon Talon for quick application of Crushing Blow vs bosses, with LS/DS as a side gig)
My main worry about Mosaic is if I'll be able to stack enough resistances to survive. I won't have a shield. It'll be very hard to reach max res vs Mephisto's Conviction aura. Not sure I have enough stuff, I need to run some numbers (been focused on farming).
If I go the other route I can use a Sanctuary shield which makes resistance stacking so much easier. But with what I have now I'd then only have around 60% CB. If I had Guillaume's Face I'd be up at 100 or close to it. Without Drac's I'd need to rely on a Life TapWand. And with only 60% CB I'm pretty much guaranteed to need to re-cast Life Tap mid-fight vs each uber & mini. That's dangerous. I'm also lacking CBF (no Raven Frost yet), unless I equip the Ethereal Duriel's Shell myself (and socket it with +res). I could do that I suppose. Would it be good enough? Not sure.
Well, it's a decision that's going to have to wait a bit while I focus on the new ladder...
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If you use Fade in addition to the standard 75 all res + a few other things like charms, you should not be too far from the max res needed for Uber Meph ?
For having tried Ubers with a trapsin... I failed. Just not enough dps to hurt them strongly enough (especially with no sunder... but sunder hurts res !). i'd favour the Mosaic path + lots of other res (Smoke?).
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Necrarch wrote: 2 weeks ago
If you use Fade in addition to the standard 75 all res + a few other things like charms, you should not be too far from the max res needed for Uber Meph ?
For having tried Ubers with a trapsin... I failed. Just not enough dps to hurt them strongly enough (especially with no sunder... but sunder hurts res !). i'd favour the Mosaic path + lots of other res (Smoke?).
I have no idea what you mean by “standard 75 all res”.
Assuming I have Smoke (50), Fade (60), Anya (30), Annihilus (10), that leaves me at 150. Half of the target 300. With Sanctuary shield (prevents using Mosaic) that’s another 50-70. I could try to stack only lightning res and have negative other resistances, but I worry I would get melted by the Skeleton Mage adds. I don’t any all res small charms (at all). I have one all res grand charm. And a couple of single res charms. I don’t want to leave anything to chance if I can avoid it. I have one shot at this.
I wouldn’t use traps vs Ubers if I go that route. I’d be kicking. Traps are for adds and for getting to the minis. It’s a hybrid. Kicksin needs only 20 Dragon Talon as a base, that’s all. The rest is whatever you want really. A kicksin’s damage comes from Crushing Blow, like a Smiter. It’s always been one of the top tier Uber builds, even before Mosaic existed.
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Yeah, I can farm on hell (just need to remove some mf gear for survivability). We’ll see what I do. Kira’s could be nice for sure. Just no guarantees when it comes to SSF
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